Did you ever buy a doll and just hate it?

I've only ever experienced this once and I hope it doesn't happen again!

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
I can't say I hated the doll but I felt very disappointed when my SDF Rei arrived. I'd wanted a SDF for a while because I really liked the size and body but none of the sculpts appealed to me when I looked at first. When Rei was released I was so happy because he seemed like the perfect sculpt however, when he arrived I really didn't like his face at all. The faceup looked different to the website, he didn't seem to fit in with my current dolls either for what I'd planned back then.

Did you opinion change after a few minutes?
It took months for me to have a change of opinion about him, I'd keep going back and taking him out of his box but it still never felt right, at the time I didn't just think it was the faceup either that was the problem for me.

If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect).
I haven't done anything just yet but I decided I wanted another doll to fit a different character, before looking for a new doll I took one last look to see if he would be suitable and he was exactly what I wanted. I will be changing his faceup though, perhaps even some mods if I dare to XD

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
I felt awful about it at the time and even now because he really is a lovely doll, I hope to make the most of having him here from now on

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?

The strongest reaction to the one head I had and disliked immediately was a very strong "meh" sensation. He'd come from a GO and there were difficulties with getting an agreement as to what he should LOOK like in the first place, which I'm sure didn't help the poor boy's case at all. I remember just staring at him for a while and going :/

Did you opinion change after a few minutes?

Nope. I ended up wrapping him up nicely and putting him back in his box and setting it on my desk for a while.

If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect).

I eventually ended up selling him on the MP.

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.

No, not really. I'd been ambivalent towards the GO ever since one member started pushing and pushing for changes I thought were getting way out of hand, and I didn't see the need in keeping around a head that I couldn't find any way to like. It's better that he went to a loving home.

 

migidoll yuri
after i've open the box i've felt a little disappointed . but tried to love him, change his face up and so on but felt even bad when i tried to posed him . but still try to love him

 

The only time I can remember disliking a doll upon opening was when I received an Elfdoll - Red. She was a special edition for Denver Doll Emporium and and was on their web site for a very long time after the offer, so I gather that she was not very popular. After getting the Elfdoll - "Pink" Vivian I couldn't wait to see Red. When she arrived, with clothing and lots of extras, I was surprised at all the packing. When I pulled off her face mask my jaw dropped. OMG her eyes were dark circled and looked rather glazed over. She was weirdly staring at me!! Spookly. I thought maybe if I dressed her her expression would change. Nope... she was still was looking at me with those weird eyes. I quickly closed up the box and put her away in the closet. It wasn't until just recently she came out of the closet to sit in a chair next to a pumpkin and other Halloween stuff. I glanced at her the other day and said, "I now know what this doll needs". She has a name now -"Red Ribbons" and is special in my eyes. It took me time to adjust to this "special" girl, but I love her more each day because she is different from my other dolls.

 

Would an "uh-oh" experience count? I did wonder if my plan might have to change. I bought 2 male sculpts that I had placed on female bodies. They weren't the really cutesy boy faces. Doll Family's NUADA and LING YU. My reaction was "WhOAHH!!" This is going to be a challenge. The company photographs make them prettier than they are when arriving bare, that's for sure. I like a challenge, and I wanted some girls outside the typical looks.

My reactions to my small dolls were at first, in the HUH? category. "I paid how much money for this tiny thing?? ~Then fascination set it, and I love them.

My very first doll I didn't bond with for some time. She is beautiful and my friend did an amazing job even giving her whole body a natural blushing. I like not seeing the doll glare. But I'm an artist and because I didn't paint her, I felt sort of like she didn't really belong to me. I've gotten past that now, mostly.

Never "hate"...but I'm the kind of person who sees potential in an empty toilet tissue roll.

 

I ordered two dolls, finally found some owner pictures for them, and hated it. Then all the cons hit me in the face, and it became a bad idea all around.

Plus, I found I only really want a specific look, so those dolls failed spectactularly on that. Warning! Don't buy on-sale dolls just because!! You WILL regret it, because you looked at price first and then doll, instead of doll first and then figure out how to pay for it.

 

Never hated a doll, but I did buy my first msd and found her to be too big for me. I never realized how big she was until I got her! Luckily someone was willing to adopt her. I guess I just prefer tinies!

 

I guess "hate" is too strong, but I had so many problems with my second doll that I just stopped liking him. The first time I tried to restring him, the S-hook came off his foot...I couldn't put it back on, and in my attempts to fix him, I wound up getting said S-hook jammed into my finger! That was kind of the end for him. I also had trouble bonding with my fourth doll, who was my first and only NS. Right now he's in his box, sitting on a shelf. I just can't bring myself to sell him; he was a gift from my parents.

 

yes this has happened with my very first doll and the only doll I have right now. I rushed into the hobby and just wanted a doll because they seem so cool. I did my research on various companies but at the same time I just jumped right in. I ended up ordering a senior luts cian for xmas, man was I disappointed. His faceup was beautiful, but his body ugh.....He was so heavy and his joints were so tight it was impossible to pose him. I tried to love him but it was so hard to. Eventually I placed him back in the box and he has been in there for a year. I took him out recently and wired his joints but still the love wasn't there like the first time I opened him. I wont sell him though. I feel as though a new faceup, wig, clothes, and shipping him off to get sueded is the best option. I know that will change my idea of him. But I know for now on, I will stick to msd sized dolls. Did i mention the S hook in his head is really annoying.....

 

I have bought a Pukipuki and the Leekeworld Mikhaila, and I really didn't like either of them. I didn't hate them- they were nice dolls. But they were not nearly as great as I thought they would be. :P I ended up selling both of them right away.

 

Not hate exactly, but I have bought a few now that upon arrival and deboxing left something to be desired.
They're all re-homed now and I'm glad they will be loved. But they weren't for me.

 

It takes a lot for me to like something, and a whole lot for me to dislike it, so no it never happened to me before. Not with dolls, and not with anything else.

 

This is a weird thing. I got a Resinsoul Gang and loved him immediately...just loved his face. But the more I played with him the more I hated his body. He couldn't do anything...couldn't stand or sit...he could only slouch. I restrung him and sueded him and he was still terrible...I was very close to selling him when I decided to try to switch heads with RS Long. Now Gang is on the taller body and Long is on the shorter body. Now I love them both so much better! The silly posing with Long on that body doesn't bother me at all like it did when Gang was on it! So funny!

 

The only one that I got and had an immediate "do not want" reaction was my Soom Epidos. I didn't like his proportions. His upper body was just so huge compared to the horse part. I have a Zinc now and I adore him... even if I'm not exactly sure what to DO with him, he's so big!

 

Sort of XD I had one doll that, when I opened him up, I was rather aprehensive...after doing his face-up I tried to convince myself I liked him but it just never worked out. He's on layaway now to be sold OnO

 

I can't say this has happened to me...

Yes, I've got a few heads I see at first and I think "did I make the right choice?" But at the end I keep them and try my best to make them work for me, even if it takes months. Otherwise, I wouldn't have bought them in the first place. I've never sold a doll; it's a lot of money and time and I particularly think a lot before clicking the "check out" button.

 

I've had bonding issues and disappointments with how the doll I received isn't really what I'd expected but I've never downright hated a doll... I've always tried to work out ways to like each one or I'll just put those I have problem with aside for the time being. Often when I take them out again and examine them with fresh eyes I find something about them that I adore.

 

Mmm, I wouldn't use the word hate. But when I first bough Elijah I wasn't bonding with him. He just didn't click and I seriously considered selling him. But after I made some major changes to his personality/backstory and changed his looks I'm happy with him And I'm glad I didn't sell him.

 

I'm currently saving up for my first doll, and because it's a Soom limited that only has a possibility of ever being released again, I've had lots of time to do my homework. I already looked up owner pics, and the only I don't like about it is the white skin. Which is fine since if she's release again, WS wont be an option. I also have several pictures of face-ups that I love both by companies and artists.

So hopefully, after all this careful planning and slowly building love, I wont hate her as soon as I see her.

 

Yes this happens a lot with me. Funny thing I love weylins alot and got one. He just did not work for me and I really didn't seem to fancey him very much at all. I sold him to a friend who loves him to death. I happen on another weylin some time later with these awsome automail modes. I was able to trade for him. This weylin works a lot better then the other.